Don’t fear the Tax Man. Fearing his auditors? That’s OK.

In a couple of days, those of us with U.S. Citizenshipt (and U.S. residents) we will get the privilege of paying for the service that government provides. It is traditional for most of us to bitterly complain about this, for it always hurts to see one’s money wasted away on the bureaucracy.

Every year, I think of a man.  I do not know this man, mind you.  My father spoke of him (OK, fine, I don’t remember who he said it about).  That man always paid his full amount of taxes. Never a deduction, never a credit.  Full amount, always.

He considered it a privilege to pay his taxes.  A privilege to live in this country, to pay for roads, and schools, and police, and fire departments, and libraries, and emergency services.

Yes, it could be argued that we’re also blowing wads of money on two wars and Obamacare (sorry, you’re already paying for the uninsured – just ask Mitt Romney, he admits it.  He just doesn’t like *how* the new Health Care bill covers the people).  But we’ve always blown giant wads of cash on meaningless endeavors.  Today is no different.

Given a choice, I’d rather that we all thought just a little bit more like the man in my memory.